A 13,600-year-old mastodon skull was uncovered in an Iowa creek, state officials announced this week.
Iowa's Office of the State Archaeologist said in a social media post that archaeologists found the well-preserved skull on the side of a creek bed in Wayne County Wednesday at an excavation site they had been mining over the last 12 days.
Throughout the almost two-week dig, several mastodon bones were recovered, but the skull was something unique, as it was the "first-ever well-preserved mastodon (primarily the skull) that has been excavated in Iowa," the post read.
14 Comments
PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@lemmy.sdf.org · 30 pts · 2y
Now waiting to find a Lemmy skull
Samvega@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 2y
Federate skulls now!
ryan213@lemmy.ca · 22 pts · 2y
But Iowa is only about 6,000 years old...
ravhall@discuss.online · 5 pts · 2y
Beat me to it
Luvs2Spuj@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y
Yes these were not saved by noah during the flood because Mastadons were well known sinners. /s
ryan213@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 2y
Those tusks were made for sinning.
LordBelphegor@lemm.ee · 14 pts · 2y
mastodon mentioned ✊
aeronmelon@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 2y
The excavators suddenly hear a rock guitar:
Chozo@fedia.io · 9 pts · 2y
What is with CBS loading a similar, but unrelated video at the top of articles lately? This happened with another story I was reading just this morning on CBS, where the video was the same type of event that the article was talking about, but from a totally different time/place.
Respect your users' bandwidth. If you're going to auto-play a video attached to a news article, then make sure it's related to the article.
catloaf@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 2y
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/disable-autoplay/
paraphrand@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
I expect that video based ads make more money than static ads in-line in the article. This the incentive to do such confusing and wasteful thing.
babypigeon@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2y
Is it planning to run for President?
pacmondo@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 2y
Its around the right age
MediaBiasFactChecker@lemmy.world · -7 pts · 2y
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